Jeanne Shaheen actually said...

"I think that is a really good point."

"I would just like to echo what Senator Ayotte said about the importance of our offices and being able to help you address both concerns you may have about how agencies or departments are operating."

"But there is an effort to simplify it in a way that certainly is going to help small businesses, because it is--as you point out, it is very important."

"The success rate of their SBIR applications has become sufficiently low, 15 percent for Phase I for many of these, that applicants no longer view the program as a viable path to think about how to get..."